BEN WILKINSON: Cladding scandal has seen homeowners bitterly betrayed

BEN WILKINSON: The cladding scandal has seen homeowners bitterly betrayed… ministers must act now to end their misery By Ben Wilkinson for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 5 January 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 5 January 2021 Home ownership is a dream that takes a lot of hard work and sacrificial saving for many … Read more

One in seven house sales is under threat amid cladding scandal

Britain is facing its biggest housing crisis in a generation as failures to fix unsafe homes are putting one in seven property deals at risk of collapse, the Mail can reveal. More than a million homeowners have been left unable to sell or remortgage their properties in the wake of the Grenfell disaster. Hundreds of … Read more

Housing minister who should be sorting out the cladding scandal is too busy reviewing champagne 

Dumb Perignon! Housing minister who should be sorting out the cladding scandal is too busy reviewing champagne Housing Minister Chris Pincher advised voters to drink as ‘alternative vaccine’ In an article for The Critic, he advised glugging £174-a-bottle champagne Pincher recommended trying the 166th edition of the Grand Cru Cuvée Chris Pincher’s department is responsible … Read more

Housing minister who should be sorting out the cladding scandal is too busy reviewing champagne 

Dumb Perignon! Housing minister who should be sorting out the cladding scandal is too busy reviewing champagne Housing Minister Chris Pincher advised voters to drink as ‘alternative vaccine’ In an article for The Critic, he advised glugging £174-a-bottle champagne Pincher recommended trying the 166th edition of the Grand Cru Cuvée Chris Pincher’s department is responsible … Read more

Nationwide BS outlines stance on cladding fire safety ESW1 forms

Britain’s biggest building society Nationwide has spoken out on what it is doing to help flat owners in blocks with cladding-related fire safety defects, who are struggling to remortgage or move home. These leaseholders are required to have what is known as an EWS1 form to prove their building is free of fire risk cladding … Read more

Nationwide BS outlines stance on cladding fire safety ESW1 forms

Britain’s biggest building society Nationwide has spoken out on what it is doing to help flat owners in blocks with cladding-related fire safety defects, who are struggling to remortgage or move home. These leaseholders are required to have what is known as an EWS1 form to prove their building is free of fire risk cladding … Read more

MPs: Flat owners should not pay repair bills on buildings with cladding

Pressure is pilling on the Government to ensure owners of flats earmarked as potentially unsafe in the cladding scandal following the Grenfell disaster do not have to pick up massive repair bills. A cross-party committee of MPs has made it clear in a new report that leaseholders should not be burdened with the costs to … Read more

MPs: Flat owners should not pay repair bills on buildings with cladding

Pressure is pilling on the Government to ensure owners of flats earmarked as potentially unsafe in the cladding scandal following the Grenfell disaster do not have to pick up massive repair bills. A cross-party committee of MPs has made it clear in a new report that leaseholders should not be burdened with the costs to … Read more

Tories on verge of revolt over failure to fix cladding scandal in wake of Grenfell tragedy

Tories on verge of revolt over failure to fix cladding scandal in wake of Grenfell tragedy Leaseholders facing bills of up to £115,000 each to remove dangerous cladding  MPs Stephen McPartland and Royston Smith have attacked Government over it They aim to build support for solutions that will stop leaseholders paying out By Miles Dilworth … Read more

Hundreds of thousands of flat owners caught in cladding row can finally sell their properties 

Hundreds of thousands of flat owners caught in Grenfell cladding row can finally sell their properties Some homeowners had to get an external fire wall review before selling People could be waiting for months or even years for a surveyor’s assessment  Government says the forms will not be needed for buildings without cladding  By Holly … Read more